Islamic State Group

Though he reportedly blabbed about blowing up a courthouse and committing other heinous acts, a terrorism expert testified Monday in federal court that a 23-year-old Oakland man who pleaded guilty to helping Islamic extremists is neither violent nor dangerous.

Federal prosecutors charged an Ohio man with planning a mass shooting in a Jewish synagogue in Toledo, and also said Monday that a woman faces charges for buying explosives for another suspected terror plot at a local bar and farm.

An Iraqi-born political asylee and legal permanent U.S. resident who served as a guide for U.S. troops, and whose brother was murdered and father tortured by the Islamic State group in revenge for it, filed a habeas petition seeking relief from a private prison in Conroe, Texas.

A day after Defense Department officials told a House panel the United States’ primary goal in Syria is defeating Islamic State group, a second panel of experts testified on the precarious way forward.

The leader of the Islamic State group apparently resurfaced Wednesday, urging his followers to “persevere” and continue fighting the group’s enemies everywhere in a purported audio recording, his first in almost a year.

Saudi Arabia said early on Friday that it has contributed $100 million to northeast Syria for “stabilization projects” in areas once held by the Islamic State group and now controlled by U.S.-backed forces.

An Iraqi man accused of killing for the Islamic State entered the U.S. as a refugee after claiming to be a victim of terrorism, in a case drawing attention amid the Trump administration’s criticism of the resettlement program’s vetting process.

In an apparent about-face on Great Britain’s long-held opposition to the death penalty, the Tory government is planning to extradite two alleged Islamic State fighters to the United States, where they could face execution.

The government says diplomatic issues with Iraq would prevent the military from releasing a dual American-Saudi Arabian citizen there who was captured on the Islamic State group battlefield in Syria back in September.

A Los Angeles man who made a series of online threats against law enforcement and others at a courthouse, a school and a private business in the name of the Islamic State group pleaded guilty to a federal crime Monday and faces up to five years in prison.

The accused terrorist behind a New York City truck attack that killed eight people last year disregarded warnings about his right against self-incrimination on Friday in a 10-minute speech extolling the Islamic State group.

Forced to wait years for the visas they were promised in exchange for assisting U.S. war efforts, five Afghan and Iraqi nationals say in a federal class action that their lives and their families’ safety are at stake.